A bit more progress:
The upstream branch has now been tagged, and pushed to the Git repository in Alioth. The following works now ....at least for me... :-) for replicating the build in a fresh directory: git clone git+ssh://git.debian.org/git/debian-med/vista-foia.git cd vista-foia/ git-buildpackage cd .. sudo dpkg -i vista-foia-0.20130405_0.20130405-1_amd64.deb sudo dpkg -i vista-foia_0.20130405-1_all.deb I'll be now cleaning up a lintian warning, and will start looking in more detail at the "deploy" script, that can be used to create actual VistA instances after the package has been installed. This "deploy" script is based on the following script https://github.com/OSEHRA/VistA/blob/master/Scripts/Install/GTM/createVistaInstance.sh crafted by Christopher Edwards (from OSEHRA / KRM ). This debian-adapted script gets installed currently in /usr/share/vista-foia/V-0.20130405/deploy/createVistaInstance.sh This is the type of deployment that I'll plan to use in my class at SUNY Albany this current Spring semester. Best, Luis

